Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 03:59:52 -0600 From: "Brad Tashenberg" <tash@airmail.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: About FreeBSD Message-ID: <mS/12Z9qV-0007pUS@mail.airmail.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] To whom it may concern, I had some questions about the FreeBSD OS but am not sure who's area this would fall into. If they could be directed to the correct contact, I would appreciate it. I am new to the computer area and am interested to learn more in the framework of the operating system aspect. Concerning FreeBSD, I read the information that was offered and some aspects I didn't quite understand (it is my fault because I am very inexperienced). I am leaning toward the Unix platform to allocate my interests. Is FreeBSD a direct descendant of the BSD-Unix operating system? I ask because in the description, it states it as a "Unix-like operating system." I don't understand what that means entirely. Also, is the system fully multi-tasked? Or does that depend on other aspects besides the core OS itself. If so, is it configured also to allocate multi-processor functionality? Or would that also be an additional aspect outside its configurations. The documentation stated that the FreeBSD OS is based with the X-Windows system. When personally altering the system, is it possible to remove this aspect from the system or will this have serious repercussions on the overall system? The last question I have would be is FreeBSD based on a Mach kernel? Or is the kernel uniquely developed by FreeBSD developers themselves. I am aiming this question toward the standard kernel that is received with FreeBSD upon acquiring the OS. In advance I would like to thank you for your time in helping me with these questions. Once again, if these could be directed to the correct contact, I would greatly appreciate it. I hope that everything is going well over there for FreeBSD. Thank you, Brad [-- Attachment #2 --] <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>About FreeBSD</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> To whom it may concern,<BR> <BR> I had some questions about the FreeBSD OS but am not sure who's area this would fall into. If they could be directed to the correct contact, I would appreciate it.<BR> <BR> I am new to the computer area and am interested to learn more in the framework of the operating system aspect. Concerning FreeBSD, I read the information that was offered and some aspects I didn't quite understand (it is my fault because I am very inexperienced).<BR> <BR> I am leaning toward the Unix platform to allocate my interests. Is FreeBSD a direct descendant of the BSD-Unix operating system? I ask because in the description, it states it as a "Unix-<I>like</I> operating system." I don't understand what that means entirely. Also, is the system fully multi-tasked? Or does that depend on other aspects besides the core OS itself. If so, is it configured also to allocate multi-processor functionality? Or would that also be an additional aspect outside its configurations.<BR> <BR> The documentation stated that the FreeBSD OS is based with the X-Windows system. When personally altering the system, is it possible to remove this aspect from the system or will this have serious repercussions on the overall system?<BR> <BR> The last question I have would be is FreeBSD based on a Mach kernel? Or is the kernel uniquely developed by FreeBSD developers themselves. I am aiming this question toward the standard kernel that is received with FreeBSD upon acquiring the OS. <BR> <BR> In advance I would like to thank you for your time in helping me with these questions. Once again, if these could be directed to the correct contact, I would greatly appreciate it. I hope that everything is going well over there for FreeBSD. <BR> <BR> Thank you,<BR> <BR> Brad<BR> </BODY> </HTML>
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